ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We love writing Sam Wu— but we couldn’t have made it into a real book that you can hold in your hands without the help and support of some amazing people!

If we had our own spaceship on Space Blasters, our captain would be Claire Wilson, our fearless agent who always guides us in the right direction. Thank you for believing in us and believing in Sam Wu.

We are tremendously grateful to everyone at our U.S. publisher, Sterling Publishing, and our U.K. publisher, Egmont, for supporting Sam Wu! Thank you to our whole team of brilliant editors—Christina Pulles, Brian Phair, Ali Dougal, Rachel Mann, Emily Sharratt, and Lindsey Heaven. We’ve loved working with all of you.

Huge thank you to our incredibly talented illustrator, Nathan Reed, for bringing Sam and his friends to life on the page! The illustrations are our favorite part of the book.

Thank you as well to genius designers, Sam Perrett and Lizzie Gardiner, who made the pages look so awesome. And thank you to the publicity, sales, and marketing teams on both sides of the pond, especially Sari Lampert Murray and Lauren Tambini at Sterling.

We’d like to thank our families and friends for all their support and excitement. Special thank you to our grandparents: Mimi, Pop-Pop, Grandpa Bob, and Po-Po. And huge thanks and love to Katie’s siblings: Jack and Jane, Kevin’s sister, Stephanie, and our brother- and sister-in-law, Ben and Cat.

And thank you to our parents, for everything.